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  1. Factories Should be the Bare Minimum

    Keep it simple.

    Matt Sumner
    April 26, 2016
    • Testing
    • Rails
    • Factory Girl
    • Web
    • Factory Bot
  2. User Testing Gone Wild: A Guide to Course Correction

    After some unexpected twists, here’s how to get your user test back on track.

    Jaclyn Perrone
    December 24, 2015
    • Design
    • Usability
    • Testing
  3. Testing HTML in Phoenix Controllers

    Learn how to use ExMachina and Phoenix’s ConnTest for robust controller tests.

    Paul Smith
    December 17, 2015
    • Phoenix
    • Elixir
    • Testing
  4. ExMachina for Elixir: Factories with a Functional Twist

    Announcing a new factory library for Elixir.

    Josh Steiner and Paul Smith
    November 2, 2015
    • Elixir
    • Testing
    • Web
  5. Validating the FormKeep API

    Validate your client-server contracts with json_matchers.

    Sean Doyle
    October 12, 2015
    • Web
    • Testing
    • Rails
    • Ruby
    • JSON
    • Formkeep
  6. Testing SMS Interactions

    How do you simulate SMS messages in feature specs?

    Joël Quenneville
    July 27, 2015
    • Web
    • Testing
    • Ruby
    • Rails
  7. Interface With Your Database in Go Tests

    Go’s interface provides a way to abstract away things like your database for testing.

    Caleb Hearth
    July 10, 2015
    • Web
    • Go
    • Testing
  8. Rails Test Types and the Testing Pyramid

    Combine multiple test types for an optimal suite.

    Joël Quenneville
    July 8, 2015
    • Web
    • Testing
    • Rails
  9. Faking APIs in Development and Staging

    Use fake API servers everywhere, not just in tests.

    Joël Quenneville
    July 6, 2015
    • Web
    • Testing
    • Rails
    • Ruby
  10. Shoulda Matchers 3.0

    Our testing library introduces some backward-incompatible changes as well as new bugfixes and features.

    Elliot Winkler
    June 5, 2015
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    • Shoulda
    • Testing
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